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UPGRADE to version 9.0 of Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac HE

bobcook

Hi everyone,

Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac version 9.0 Home Edition is available: http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-antivirus-for-mac-home-edition.aspx

The headline feature for version 9.0 is Web Protection, offering protection to make web browsing safe. This is the same technology used by our corporate customers, learn more from our website: http://www.sophos.com/en-us/why-sophos/innovative-technology/web-protection.aspx

We've also worked hard to improve the existing features with a number of security and stability fixes. Version 9.0 supports Mac OS X 10.6 and up. This means we've discontinued support for all PowerPC systems and 10.4/10.5 Intel systems going forward.

You can upgrade an existing version 8 installation, or set up a brand new installation with the same installer. Either way, just download and run the installer app. Today you need to "opt-in" by manually running the installer to upgrade yourself, but later this year we'll migrate all version 8 installations automatically.

If you find problems, please post about it here. If you don't have any problems we'd also love to hear that too. If you find a showstopper issue, please let us know and then reinstall version 8 until we can fix it (the installer for version 8 is also still available from our website).

Regarding the Web Protection feature, you can test the two different types of protection with these two links:

URL reputation blocking: http://www.sophostest.com/ then click the "Malware" link about half-way down the page

Malicious content blocking: http://www.eicar.org/download/eicar_com.zip

In both cases, you will get a notification page instead of the real content when the protection features are enabled in the preferences.

Thanks for using our product, keep sending feedback.

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    pinkumiidori wrote:

    Hi,

    I had Sophos version 8 on my Mac (OS X 10.8.5) and whenever I tried updating it, it gave me the "Could not contact primary server" error. I uninstalled and reinstalled Sophos version 9, but I still have the same situation. Any idea on what's going on? There's a thread in the forum with people with the same problem; it started today (the 18th). Thank you in advance.

    I suspect the server could not be contacted because it was down or unavailable for some reason (FWIW, the Apple Forums were down for most of the day too) and I ran into the same thing. But the Sophos server is back up today and updating worked.

    I do think, however, that something a bit less ominous than a big black X through the shield might be used to announce an updating glitch since Sophos is still working locally, it's just not getting the very latest virus definitions. Perhaps a "?" might be a better symbol, with the X being reserved for when Sophos goes on strike.

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    pinkumiidori wrote:

    Hi,

    I had Sophos version 8 on my Mac (OS X 10.8.5) and whenever I tried updating it, it gave me the "Could not contact primary server" error. I uninstalled and reinstalled Sophos version 9, but I still have the same situation. Any idea on what's going on? There's a thread in the forum with people with the same problem; it started today (the 18th). Thank you in advance.

    I suspect the server could not be contacted because it was down or unavailable for some reason (FWIW, the Apple Forums were down for most of the day too) and I ran into the same thing. But the Sophos server is back up today and updating worked.

    I do think, however, that something a bit less ominous than a big black X through the shield might be used to announce an updating glitch since Sophos is still working locally, it's just not getting the very latest virus definitions. Perhaps a "?" might be a better symbol, with the X being reserved for when Sophos goes on strike.

    :1013861
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